The animations are slow to load up and down though... if you've played online poker at all, it's just mind-numbingly slow.

You can usually play upwards of 60-70 hands per hour online-- potentially touching 90 if you've got a fast table, but in RDR2, it seems like even rush reloads, you're looking at 30sih hands and that's with only a few players. I love poker, but there's no way I'm playing this game. It's stupid frustrating.

True, but I think it still stands as you have more people to potentially play against you. You get pocket As heads up you're probably not going to get very much because you don't want them getting to the river card. Good odds the guy would just fold to a pre-flop raise unless you're playing a tourney.

If you play Blackjack according to common strategy, it's actually about as fair a game as there is. The dealer only holds a very slight advantage. "Fair" means that if you play 100 hands, you should expect to earn/lose about $0.

Blackjack: The more players the slower the game and has 0 effect on the amount of money you get. When other people join it actually makes you earn money slower.

Um ... that's not true? The more players there are, the more cards there are shown on the table, and therefore, you have a better idea of what cards will be drawn next.

It's very different to look at only your two cards and the dealers one and wonder what the next card is, and look at the cards for yourself and five other players and go 'Yeah, there are seven face cards out, and few low cards. Odds are in my favor and I'm at 13, hit me!"

The worst fucking part of the blackjack is that he shuffles every hand. Even if they aren’t going to have an actual persistent deck going (or 8) why do they feel the need to show the dealer shuffling every single hand? When in reality, that never fucking happens.

Former blackjack dealer here, I'm totally with you on the slowness. The issue that I have with blackjack in most videogames is that none of the "house tricks" work at all. Perfect example would be to never hit if the dealer is showing any card below 7.

I feel the only game where blackjack was tolerable was Fallout New Vegas, but only if your luck was high.

In red dead, what I do is never too raise but always to see or check and if I have something with all cards dealt, I go all in. That way I made 6 or so people leave the table once.. obviously in St. Denis, where there's high stakes

Yeah, I love poker and blackjack, but the poker is so low stakes and the blackjack dealer is the slowest dealer in the universe. I just can't be bothered. If I could play speed solo blackjack I would do it for hours.

It's part of the MGS3 Secret Theater- a collection of cutscenes included on the 2nd disc of MGS3: Subsistence. They're hilarious, and I loved watching them on my PS2 back in the day. My personal favorite is probably this one

I can't help it. Had to customize every weapon so they look like a set with same color scheme. I'm wringing every bit out of this game. In chapter 2 and haven't played a story mission for the last 20+ hours of game time and having a blast.

Broooo no spoilers but push through to chapter 3 you'll unlock more good guns to buy and get a bit of cash behind you from missions then mess around. I did the same as you my first playthrough and went roaming early and regretted it a few missions later.

Just did dominoes last night. Got to 2 games TWICE and lost the streak because somehow Cleve had one good turn that earned like 45 points in one go before I could exit the game. Finally got it though, probably took me a good 4 hrs total though.

I’m not even joking, it felt like Cleve had amazing luck. Even after loading a save and the character models changed, one was still named Cleve and he was still cleaning up. Fuck that guy.

I’m doing one of the poker challenges. I have double Aces, flop has an Ace. Go all in, opponent I need to bust out only has pocket Kings. Next two cards, King, King. I must’ve shot his body a good 30 times.

I remember I was intentionally trying to get into debt just so I could fight off the hit squads, so I was betting big on double zero in roulette, but I ended up winning, got like 88 million so I gave up.

I may have spent a good hour or so antagonizing the townspeople in Van Horn, leading them a little bit out of town, and killing them all. Then looting the bodies and doing it again. My horse was so mad at me.

Took me about 2 days, questioned why on earth I was getting so obsessed by RNG as opposed to actually playing the great game, wondered what it said about my personality, 11/10 would feel strangely proud upon achievement again.

I love open world games but I'm completely burned out on collection bullshit, I don't even try the challenges, I love RDD1 and went to 100% on the game but can't find the ability to care in R2D2. I don't even do the legendary fishing because it's so dull and the reward is a bit of cash. I do the legendary animals because you can get some cool outfits/trinkets and is much less effort.

I can't wait for the open world game that completely foregos the whole collect a bunch of bullshit and focus on interesting things to do.

Yeah I was really bummed by the lackluster fishing rewards. The fishing is kind of fun in and of itself if you need a break from the core gameplay. But it takes way too long to reel in some of the fish species. I noticed after catching the first legendary fish I got a lake lure in the mail. Was that a reward for catching the first legendary fish? Which I caught in the lake? With the special lake lure? WTF, man.

Same, man. I've been off work the last 3 weeks for a hernia surgery, so I figured I'd hammer down on Spiderman first, then RDR2. I started off doing everything in Spiderman and then by the time I got to the challenges, I was just totally over it.

Didnt even attempt any of the challenges in RDR2. I just played how I wanted to and if it happened, it happened.

My bad, I definitely did not word that correctly. I meant I spent 25 real world hours hunting in game. I made the mistake of wanting to upgrade everything in camp and made a list of all things I need. Turns out it's a shitton of things and since anything but a perfect pelt is useless ... Getting a three star to appear can sometimes be really frustrating. As a funny side project I decided to not cut the hair until I'm done. So you can imagine what I look like now hunting about.

Considering the time it takes I'm thinking very carefully if I really want to buy all trapper clothes.......

It's too bad the game is riddled with this type of nonsense because some of the challenges are actually fun. But inevitably with each category I hit a challenge that is too tedious. "Steal and sell 5 horses in 24 hours." Nah fuck that.

I think with all 5s you need to pay attention to the two ends. If you have a domino open with a 3 and the otherside had a 2 open, thats a 5 and you get 5 points. Gets a little trickier with those split tiles but they just add to the ends you have to pay attention to.

Never mind that. What is worse is when you get two low cards to start and the dealer gives himself a blackjack, or the ass of a dealer deals himself blackjack 3 straight times. That boah lost his head.